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Monday, May 21, 2012

The Consequences

I turned to Gus, who was still tugging at my sleeve. "What?!" I snapped.

"You gotta fight him off, boss-man," he
said. "You can't take that deal, no
matter how good it sounds." He was
practically begging.

"Okay...why?"

"First of all," he explained, "he's
probably lying. I've never heard of a
door to Heaven straight from Hell. You'd
have to go through the real world first, I'm almost sure of it. Second, you can't just sneak into
Heaven. There's a lot of security and
there's a proper process for getting into it.
If you were supposed to go here, they'll know about it. They're not
stupid enough to just assume that since you made it to the pearly gates you
must belong there."

I sensed he had another reason. "And third?"

"Third...Vilnius and I have had...words...in the
past. If he becomes Devil, the first
thing he's going to do is free me of my subservience, and the second thing he's
going to do is throw me into the deepest pit and give me the worst torture
Kivra can think of. And he'll leave me
there literally forever. There are
plenty of demons I would not like to work for, but Vilnius has a grudge against
me and he easily makes the top of
that list." He heaved a huge sigh.
I guess it took a lot of breath to get all that out.

"Okay," I said, shrugging. "So when he comes back, I tell him to
shove it, I pin him against the wall with a desk or something, and we run for
it. That sounds like fun," I added
sourly. I was getting kind of sick of
being helpless all the time.

Gus cleared his throat.
"I have another idea," he said. "And this involves a trick you might get
a kick out of."